Guillaume Ballu, former mayor of the town of Gournay, located near Paris, was sentenced to four years imprisonment and was deprived of his civic rights for anti-Jewish wartime activities. He was also fined 12,000 francs.
During the German occupation of France, he compelled a Jewish school principal to register with the Nazis as a Jew, denounced a Jewish physician who had been permitted to continue his practice despite the racial laws instituted by the German occupation authorities and denounced still another Jew who was eventually deported to his death in the East.
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